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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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